Monday, 12 October 2009

Space as a keyword - David Harvey

Harvey mentions how space cannot only be defined in an absolute sense like area and volume. Space also has an emotional sense to it.

He talks about how in a certain absolute space you can know that people are there, but you cannot know where they are in terms of their relationship to the space as different spaces will stir different emotions in different people dependind on their past experiences and preferences.

He also talks about how Ground Zero is a relational space as well as an absolute space. Due to what happened on the site there is a need to not only respond to the obvious commercial needs of the site but also the emotional needs of the site too.

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